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Parking can be hard to come by and expensive in Japan, so shop owners who are lucky enough to have a parking lot take their "customers only" policy pretty seriously, but having a car towed can be time-consuming and problematic.

Japan is famous for its Kit Kats. The country has a slew of unique flavors that simply aren't available elsewhere. On this month, it will get the first Kit Kat specialty store on Earth. Called Kit Kat Chocolatory, the store will open on January 17...

With the overwhelming success of Attack on Titan, a new mobile game will be coming to the iOS and Android platforms soon and it will be called Attack on Titan: Roar to Freedom. The game's developer, DeNA has just announced earlier today that the g...

Back in November, I listed Golden Time as one of the ten anime of the fall you should be watching. Now, as the series passes its halfway point, I can truly say that Golden Time has a death grip on my heartstrings and refuses to let go.

The sixth Blu-ray Disc/DVD volume of the second Kuroko's Basketball anime season will include an original video anime on June 20. This year's eighth issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shueisha Jump magazine is making the announcement on Monday.

Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Revolution will have four new characters, revealed in the latest issue of Jump magazine. (Thanks, Re:Zaregoto) Joining the roster of playable characters are the Second Tsuchikage, Third Raikage, Second Mizu...

NIS America may be working through some standard editions of previously released shows, but they also have some new material on the way. The company has announced the acquisition of Haiyore! Nyaruko-san, which they will be releasing under the name...

'Mikakunin de Shinkoukei' DVD/BD Getting Anime Short Posted by Chris Beveridge January 15, 2014 at 10:38 AM Mikakunin de Shinkoukei Adding new materials to a home video release is definitely a familiar pattern for many anime series and Mikakunin d...

Discotek Media has made a very welcome pick up not only for anime fans, but animation fans in general. Coming out on DVD on April 29th is the Amazing Nuts! anthology short, which was done by Studio 4°C and originally out in Japan back in 2006.

As fans continue to wait for the now twice-delayed debut of the new Sailor Moon TV series, numerous companies have been taking advantage of their anxious anticipation by featuring the beloved magical girls of the hit '90s anime in their offerings ...

Destiny Productions announced that one of their talents, Kane Kosugi (Ninja Sentai Kakuranger, Dead or Alive) is not starring in the Tekken: A Man Called X live-action film. The company apologized for the mistake and corrected that Kosugi will sta...

Adaptation of novels made famous by Studio Ghibli opens in Japan on March 1 Website Crank In! ! posted six new images from the live-action film of Eiko Kadono's fantasy novel series Kiki's Delivery Service (Majo no Takkyūbin) on January 4.

Marvelous AQL recently surprised us by announcing three new Senran Kagura titles, including an upcoming rhythm/cooking game featuring the series' busty ninjas. In an interview with Famitsu magazine, series producer Kenichiro Takaki talks about how...

Japanese publisher Fujimi Shobo announced today on January 15 that an anime adaptation of Shoji Gatoh's latest light novel series Amagi Brilliant Park is in the works. The first volume of the series illustrated by Yuka Nakajima (Listen to Me, Girls.

Gundam anime creator Yoshiyuki Tomino will be holding a January 21 press conference to announce the first project in the collaboration between his Ookaze no Okorusama company and Hollywood special effects studio Legacy Effects.

Alright, North America is still late to the party, but how many of you on this side of the world have already played the hell out of the Bravely Default demo? If you're chomping at the bit for the full game, Nintendo has a new trailer showing off ...

The next game based on the sprawling Detective Conan series is Detective Conan: Phantom Rhapsody. Namco Bandai has the Nintendo 3DS entry slated for an April 17 launch in Japan. Phantom Rhapsody uses a zapping system that lets players see the st...

Jan. 16. 2014KAMEN RIDER GIRLS, who is gathering good reputation for the unusual overdrive sound among girls group, announced that they will be releasing the 2nd album titled "exploded" on March 19. This was announced during "Chou Eiyuu Sai (Super...

We've got a few months of marketing ahead of us for Edge of Tomorrow, whose trailer is getting more play in theaters lately, but that's not stopping Tom Cruise from getting out some promotion himself for it.

Dark Souls Café opens up in Japan The infamously difficult game series that has broken many a controller last generation has been bestowed with its own café in the Nishi Azabu-area in Japan. The café has opened up to promote the release of Dark So...

General Cosplays and Pictures of the Venue League of Legends Gathering After being spoiled with Anime-Expo for the past four years, I thought it would be cool to go check out some of the other conventions that were somewhat close to where I live.

Witch Craft Works Things are looking up for manga property Witch Craft Works from Ryu Mizunagi as Random House has started to list it on their distribution site and Amazon has it based off of that as well.

Hunter X Hunter 2011 - 112 I suppose if Togashi-sensei can turn one minute into an entire episode, I can get a few paragraphs out of it - but boy, he sure doesn't make it easy to describe what he - and Madhouse - are accomplishing here.

'Witch Craft Works' Manga Getting Special Bundled Anime Episode Posted by Chris Beveridge January 14, 2014 at 06:28 PM Witch Craft Works The use of creating an additional anime episode to bundle with a manga volume continues into 2014 as the July ...

Dengeki PlayStation magazine has revealed that Nippon Ichi Software has scheduled PlayStation 3 adventure game If You Thought It Was Harem Paradise, It Was Yandere Hell for April 24th release. Tatsumi Takuma directs the project, with Katsunori K...

The official Discotek Media Facebook page revealed the first volume of their upcoming Mazinger Z DVD release! The first volume contains episodes 1-46 and features Japanese audio with English subtitles.

Atlus USA have shared descriptions of the seven heroines in Conception II, along with screenshots of them. The seven heroines are the ladies that you get to court and make Star Children with, in order to continue the battle against evil.